American ballads and folk songs

American ballads and folk songs

John Avery Lomax, 1867-1948

Book - 1958

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Subjects
Ballads, English > United States.
Folk songs, English.
African Americans > Music.
Folk music.
Published
New York : Macmillan Co 1958, c1934.
Language
English
Main Author
John Avery Lomax, 1867-1948 (-)
Other Authors
Alan Lomax, 1915-2002 (compiler)
Physical Description
xxxix, 625 p.
Bibliography
"Bibliography ... compiled by Harold W. Thompson": p. 613-621.
ISBN
9780486282763
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Chapter I. Working On The Railroad
  • John Henry
  • Steel Laying Holler
  • The Heavy-Hipted Woman
  • Tie Shuffling Chant
  • Tie Tamping Chant
  • "Good-by, Pretty Mama"
  • Paddy Works on the Erie
  • Mike
  • The Gila Monster Route
  • "Hallelujah, Bum Again"
  • Ten Thousand Miles from Home
  • The Wreck on the C. & O.
  • Nachul-Born Easman
  • Casey Jones
  • The Wreck of the Six-Wheel Driver
  • Ol' John Brown
  • Charley Snyder
  • Chapter II. The Levee Camp
  • Shack Bully Holler
  • Reason I Stay on Job So Long
  • Gwineter Harness in de Mornin' Soon
  • "Levee Camp "Holler"
  • Shot My Pistol in de Heart of Town
  • Chapter III. Songs From Southern Chain Gangs
  • Ain' No Mo' Cane on de Brazis
  • Black Betty
  • The Hammer Song
  • Rosie
  • Ol' Rattler
  • Stewball
  • De Midnight Special
  • Long Gone
  • Great God-a'mighty
  • Jumpin' Judy
  • Goin' Home
  • Chapter IV. Negro Bad Men
  • Bad Man Ballad
  • Po Laz'us
  • Stagolee
  • Old Bill
  • Frankie and Albert
  • Ida Red
  • Big Jim
  • De Ballit of de Boll Weevil
  • Bill Martin and Ella Speed
  • Railroad Bill
  • Chapter V. White Desperadoes
  • Spanish Johnny
  • John Harty
  • Sam Bass
  • Jesse James
  • Quantrell
  • Sam Hall
  • Jim Haggerty's Story
  • Billy the Kid
  • The Cryderville Jail
  • Po' Boy
  • Chapter VI. Songs From The Mountains
  • Down in the Valley
  • Every Night When the Sun Goes In
  • The Roving Gambler
  • I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground
  • Sugar Babe
  • When I Was Single [the Woman]
  • When I Was Single [the Man]
  • Darlin'
  • Polly Williams
  • The Bear in the Hill
  • The Little Mohee
  • Chapter VII. Cocaine And Whisky
  • Drink That Rot Gut
  • Rye Whisky
  • The Drunkard's Doom
  • Little Brown Jug
  • Adieu to Bon County
  • Good Ol' Mountain Dew
  • Lulu
  • Willie the Weeper
  • "Honey, Take a Whiff on Me"
  • Chapter VIII. The Blues
  • Cornfield Holler
  • Dirty Mistreatin' Women
  • Dink's Blues
  • Dink's Song
  • Woman Blue
  • Go Away f'om Mah Window
  • My Li'l John Henry
  • Shorty George
  • "The "Cholly" Blues"
  • "Fare Thee Well, Babe"
  • Alabama-Bound
  • Chapter IX. Creole Negroes
  • Michié Préval
  • Rémon
  • Criole Candjo
  • "Un, Deux, Trois"
  • Aurore Pradère
  • Ou Som Souroucou
  • Salangadou
  • Chapter X. "Reels"
  • Foller de Drinkin' Gou'd
  • "Run, Nigger, Run!"
  • Pick a Bale o' Cotton
  • Hard to Be a Nigger
  • Shortenin' Bread
  • Sandy Lan'
  • Pattin'
  • a. Little Gal at Our House
  • b. Rabbit Hash
  • c. "Da's All Right, Baby"
  • Cotton Field Song
  • De Grey Goose
  • Julie Ann Johnson
  • My Yallow Gal
  • De Black Gal
  • Chapter XI. Minstrel Types
  • The Ballad of Davy Crockett
  • Raise a Rukus Tonight
  • When de Good Lord Sets You Free
  • Old Dan Tucker
  • Cotton-Eyed Joe
  • Chapter XII. Breakdowns And Play Parties
  • The Arkansas Traveller
  • Groun' Hog
  • Cumberland Gap
  • Sourwood Mountain
  • Old Joe Clark
  • The Gal I Left Behind Me
  • a. That Pretty Little Gal
  • b. A cowboy version
  • Ol' Mother Hare
  • Liza Jane
  • Black-Eyed Susie
  • Louisiana Girls
  • Weevily Wheat
  • Way Over in the Blooming Garden
  • Skip to My Lou
  • Shoot the Buffalo
  • Going to Boston
  • Shoo-Shoo-Shoo-Lye
  • Chapter XIII. Songs Of Childhood
  • What Folks Are Made of All the Pretty Little Horses
  • The Old Gray Goose
  • Long Time Ago
  • Three Pigs
  • Tale of a Little Pig
  • Frog Went a-Courtin'
  • Crows in the Garden
  • The Connecticut Peddler
  • Billy Boy
  • Paper of the Pins
  • Hardly Think I Will
  • I Love Little Willie
  • Chapter XIV. Miscellany
  • The Factory Girl
  • Hard Times
  • On Meesh-e-gan
  • Tearin' Out-a Wilderness
  • The Man on the Flying Trapeze
  • Ye Ballade of Ivan Petrovsky Skevar
  • Beautiful
  • The Highly Educated Man
  • Darky Sunday School
  • The Old Bachelor
  • Rattle Snake
  • Chapter XV. Vaqueros Of The Southwest
  • All the Pretty Little Horses
  • Allá en el Rancho Grande
  • El Amor Que Te Tenía
  • El Abandonado
  • Cuatro Palomitas Blancas
  • Tragedia de Heraclio Bernal
  • Chapter XVI. Cowboy Songs
  • From the Chuck Wagon
  • Cowboy's Getting'-Up Holler
  • The Old Chizzum Trail
  • When I Was a Cowboy
  • Cowboy to Pitching Bronco
  • Other Cowboy Boasting Chants
  • "Good-by, Old Paint"
  • "Git Along, Little Dogies"
  • The Buffalo Skinners
  • The Stampede
  • Mustang Gray
  • Hell in Texas
  • Arizona
  • The Killer
  • Snagtooth Sal
  • Tying a Knot in the Devil's Tail
  • Susan Van Dusan
  • The Cowboy's Dream
  • Red River Shore
  • Roy Bean
  • An Idaho Cowboy Dance
  • In Town
  • Bucking Bronco
  • Poor Lonesome Cowboy
  • Chapter XVII. Songs Of The Overlanders
  • Joe Bowers
  • Sweet Betsy from Pike
  • Crossing the Plains
  • Coming Around the Horn
  • The Bull-Whacker
  • Brigham Young
  • Greer County
  • Chapter XVIII. The Miner
  • The Hard-Working Miner
  • The Dreary Black Hills
  • Just from Dawson
  • Chapter XIX. The Shanty-Boy
  • The Lost Jimmie Whalen
  • The Shanty-Boy and the Farmer's Son
  • Gerry's Rocks
  • Bung Yer Eye
  • The

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